How to get set of discusssions through API's using ids ??

praburaj06

How to get set of discussions through API's using ids ?? some thing like below
https://forum.devhosted.com/api/discussions?filtre[q]=1,2,3,4,5

clarkwinkelmann

praburaj06 there's no such thing natively. The only paginated discussion list is the index or Search results. To fetch from an arbitrary list of IDs you need to query one discussion at a time, or write an extension to create a new API endpoint

praburaj06

Thanks for the quick response @clarkwinkelmann ,
what about getting all discussions in a single api call ??

luceos

praburaj06 you can't, you will need to paginate the results.

clarkwinkelmann

If you describe your use case we might be able to provide more detailed suggestions.

If you are trying to crawl discussion on a forum you don't control, the best solution is to go through the /api/discussions paginated results. By default it's 20 discussions but you can ask more with ?filter[limit]=50. Unless the forum admin did some advanced modifications to Flarum the maximum will be 50 discussions. Then follow the next page URL in the response for the next, etc.

If you control the forum, you might want to use the PHP extension API to perform your work directly or expose a better API endpoint.

If your use case is read only, maybe you could also directly query the database with SQL.